Personalized screening strategies for TP53 R337H carriers: a retrospective cohort study of tumor spectrum in Li-Fraumeni syndrome adult carriersResearch in context by Pedro A.F. Galante, Gabriela D.A. Guardia, Janina Pisani, Renata L. Sandoval, Mateus C. Barros-Filho, Ana Carolina Leite Vieira Costa Gifoni, Diogo F.C. Patrão, Patricia Ashton-Prolla, Vitor Fiorin de Vasconcellos, Claire Freycon, Arnold Levine, Pierre Hainaut, Maria Isabel Achatz

“…Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 708 adults, combining data from two sources: the Brazilian Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Study cohort and the NCI TP53 database. …”
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Failure Behavior and Energy Storage and Release of Hard Coal under Different Static and Dynamic Loading States by XianJie Hao, GuangYao Pan, Chaoxing Ma, Yingnan Wei, Zeyu Chen

“…In this paper, four experimental methods (uniaxial compression, Brazilian splitting, and coupled dynamic-static tensile and coupled dynamic-static compression) were used to analyze the energy accumulation, energy rate of release, and failure modes of this type of hard coal under different loading conditions. …”
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A Spectral Transfer Function to Harmonize Existing Soil Spectral Libraries Generated by Different Protocols by Nicolas Francos, Daniela Heller-Pearlshtien, José A. M. Demattê, Bas Van Wesemael, Robert Milewski, Sabine Chabrillat, Nikolaos Tziolas, Adrian Sanz Diaz, María Julia Yagüe Ballester, Asa Gholizadeh, Eyal Ben-Dor

“…These SSLs had already been measured using different protocols without any ISS treatment the Brazilian (BSSL, generated in 2019) and the European (LUCAS, generated in 2009–2012) SSLs. …”
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Association of aerobic capacity and muscular strength with health-related quality of life in adolescents: A school-based cross-sectional study by Bianca Lins dos Santos, João Paulo Rodrigues dos Santos, José Damião Saraiva Gomes-Júnior, Eriston de Souza Bezerra, Samuel Lira da Silva Barbosa, Bárbara Gicélia da Silva Araújo, Fabio Thiago Maciel da Silva, João Pedro Magalhães, Vera Lúcia Zymbal, Eduardo Caldas Costa, Rodrigo Alberto Vieira Browne

“…Methods: A cross-sectional design was employed, including 202 Brazilian adolescents. Aerobic capacity was assessed using the PACER test and categorized into “healthy zone”, “needs improvement”, and “at risk”. …”
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Spacetime modeling of mortality by infectious and parasitic diseases in Brazil: a 20-year ecological and population-based study by Lucas Almeida Andrade, Carlos Dornels Freire de Souza, Wandklebson Silva da Paz, Danilo de Gois Souza, José Augusto Passos Góes, Emerson Lucas Silva Camargo, Álvaro Francisco Lopes de Sousa, Liliane Moretti Carneiro, Isabel Amélia Costa Mendes, Karina Machado Araújo, Allan Dantas dos Santos, Márcio Bezerra-Santos

“…Methods: We conducted an ecological study using data on mortality by IPDs from the Brazilian Mortality Information System. We applied the segmented log-linear regression model to assess temporal trends. …”
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Validation of the COTENP Code: A Steady-State Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis Code for Nuclear Reactors with Plate Type Fuel Assemblies by Duvan A. Castellanos-Gonzalez, João Manoel Losada Moreira, José Rubens Maiorino, Pedro Carajilescov

“…To validate the COTENP code, we considered experimental data from the Brazilian IEA-R1 research reactor and calculated data from the Chinese CARR multipurpose reactor. …”
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Genetic determinants of COVID-19 severity and mortality: ACE1 Alu 287 bp polymorphism and ACE1, ACE2, TMPRSS2 expression in hospitalized patients by João Locke Ferreira de Araújo, Átila Duque Rossi, Jessica Maciel de Almeida, Hugo José Alves, Isabela de Carvalho Leitão, Renata Eliane de Ávila, Anna Carla Pinto Castiñeiras, Jéssica da Silva Oliveira, Rafael Mello Galliez, Marlon Daniel Lima Tonini, Débora Souza Faffe, Shana Priscila Coutinho Barroso Barroso, Gustavo Gomes Resende, Cássia Cristina Alves Gonçalves, Terezinha Marta Pereira Pinto Castiñeiras, Amilcar Tanuri, Mauro Martins Teixeira, Renato Santana Aguiar, Cynthia Chester Cardoso, Renan Pedra de Souza

“…Methods Swabs were collected in two Brazilian cities in 2020: Belo Horizonte (n = 134) and Rio de Janeiro (n = 41). …”
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Relationship between Brittleness Index and Crack Initiation Stress Ratio for Different Rock Types by Juyu Jiang, Dong Wang, Xinping Han, Shuai Di

“…The relationship between brittleness index and K is obtained from laboratory mechanics tests including uniaxial compression and Brazilian splitting tests. The results show that B1 and B2 have an inversely proportional and variant inversely proportional relationship with K, respectively, whereas no apparent relationship is observed between B3 and B4 and K. …”
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Clash of Drought Narratives: A Study on the Role of Small Reservoirs in the Emergence of Drought Impacts by Germano G. Ribeiro Neto, Lieke A. Melsen, Alexandre C. Costa, David W. Walker, Louise Cavalcante, Sarra Kchouk, João Paulo Brêda, Eduardo S. P. R. Martins, Pieter R. vanOel

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Increased NOX-dependent ROS production and proportionally enhanced antioxidant response in white adipose tissue of male rats by Jessica de Freitas Nascimento, Keciany Alves de Oliveira, Paula Alexandre de Freitas, Júlia de Araújo Marques Falci, Renata Prado Vasconcelos, Saulo Chaves Magalhães, Talita Mendes Farias, Maria Isabel Cardoso Alonso-Vale, Adriano Cesar Carneiro Loureiro, Denise Pires de Carvalho, Rodrigo Soares Fortunato, Ariclécio Cunha de Oliveira

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Physical and Mechanical Properties of Gypsum-Like Rock Materials by Sijiang Wei, Chongyang Wang, Yushun Yang, Meng Wang

“…Therefore, in this paper, four groups of samples under different moisture content are tested by ultrasonography, uniaxial compression, conventional triaxial compression, Brazilian splitting, X-ray diffraction, and SEM, and then the physical and mechanical properties of gypsum rock are studied, and the conclusion is as follows: the density of the water saturated sample, and the longitudinal wave velocity of the natural sample are the highest. …”
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Association between the aromatase (CYP19A1) gene variant rs10046 and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women by Betânia Rodrigues dos Santos, Gislaine Casanova, Thais Rasia da Silva, Karen Oppermann, Poli Mara Spritzer

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Undifferentiated Embryonal Sarcoma of the Liver Involving All Major Hepatic Veins Treated by Left Extended Trisectionectomy by Reinaldo Fernandes, Klaus Steinbrück, Jan-Peter Périssé, Rodrigo Luz, Renato Cano, Fernanda Cruz-Nunes, Diego Garcia, Rodrigo Diaz, Fernanda Cavalcanti Carneiro, Andrea Velloso, Carlos Frederico Campos, Marcelo Enne

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Estrogen-mediated modulation of sterile inflammatory markers and baroreflex sensitivity in ovariectomized female Wistar rats by Md. Iqbal Alam, Naba Sami, Aftab Alam, Sheema Wazib, Neha Dhyani, Sher Afghan, Mairaj Ahmed Ansari

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Physico-chemical attributes of a Cambisol under pasture managed with annual burns after sugarcane vinasse application by Thadeu Rodrigues de Melo, Rogério Resende Martins Ferreira, Deisi Navroski, Clarissa Tieme Matsuda Feltran, João Tavares Filho

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O equilíbrio pontuado: proposta, fundamentação e recepção (1972-1993) by Gabriel Vanzo Rodrigues, Lilian Al-Chueyr Pereira Martins

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A rare case of double pituitary prolactinomas: the diagnostic application of intraoperative ultrasonography and DNA methylation markers by Jared C. Reese, Thomas M. Zervos, Jack Rock, Abeer Tabbarah, Houtan Noushmehr, Grayson Herrgott, Ana Valeria Castro

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A Hybrid Artificial Neural Network and Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm for Detecting COVID-19 Patients by Alla Ahmad Hassan, Tarik A Rashid

“…To begin, we preprocessed data from a Brazilian dataset consisted primarily of early-stage symptoms. …”
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Pyriproxyfen, villain or good guy? A brief review by Andressa Pereira Cabral, Fabrício Pereira dos Santos Maia, D’Angelo Carlo Magliano, Jones Bernardes Graceli, Paula Soares, Eduardo Andrés Rios Morris, Leandro Miranda-Alves

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Insights into mapping tropical primary wet forests in the Amazon Basin from satellite-based time series metrics of canopy stability by Brendan Mackey, Sonia Hugh, Tatiana Shestakova, Brendan M. Rogers, Ludmila Rattis

“…Analyses were focused on the Brazilian Amazon but extended to the entire Amazon Basin. …”
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